Implement-holder.



R. B. TAFT.

IMPLEMENT HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 30, 1910.

Patented0ct.1,1912.

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RAY BAKER TAFT, OF'HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

' IMPLEM NT-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application-filed June 30, 1910. 1 Serial No. 569,826.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAY BAKER TAr'r,a citizen of the United States, andresident of South street, Hingham, in the county A of Plymouth andCommonwealth of Massachusetts,have invented. new and useful Improvementsin Implement-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for holding implements such as keys,wrenches and other small tools, and its object is to provide such adevice of compact form, so that 'it will occupy small space, and onewhich will hold the implement securely against accidental dislodgment,at the same time permitting it to be readily inserted in and removedfrom the holder.

Although the device is susceptible of a much wider range of use, it isparticularly designed for attachment to an automobile in someinconspicuous place to hold the key or wrench used in connection withthe Presto-lite gas tank, so-called, and an embodiment of the inventionsuitable for such use is illustrated in the drawings, in which,-

Figure 1 is a plan view of an implement holder embodying my invention;Fig. 2 is a cross section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1'; and Fig. 3 is a sideor edge elevation of the device, viewed from the bottom of Fig. 1,showing the device attached to a support.

Referring to the drawings, a represents the base, in the form of a plateadapted to be screwed to the supporting surface, for which purpose it isprovided with screw holes a, a. At one end of the base is a projectionor pin Z), and at the other end is a holding projection 0, preferablybeveled on each side as shown at c, 0. These projections constituteholding members for the implement or key is, as presently to be de- 1scribed.

d is a leaf spring secured to the base and extending over the implementor key is between said holding projections, which are spaced apart asshown, yieldingly to hold the key against dislodgment from said holdingmembers. The spring member d is preferably secured to an arm orextension a of the base by a single fastener or rivet cl, and isprevented from swinging laterally by the lugs e, e, on the base, whichform a channel or groove between them to receive the spring. The innerends of the lugs c, c, serve also as a stop for the edge of the key isand are preferably beveled as shown at e, so that when the key 70 islodged between the projec-' tion cand the stop 6 (see especially Fig. 2)the edgesof the key will rest against the two bevel surfaces instead oflying against the base, thus preventing any play of the key in theholder which might cause it to rattle.

The implement or key 70 may be provided as usual'with a socket is and ahole 70 in the other end of the handle. To insert the key in the holder,one of the holes, as W, is placed over the pin 6 as shown in position; 1in Fig. 1, and the key is then swung on pin 7) as a pivot, the shankpassing between the base and the end of spring clip d, which standsclear of the base as shown. When the implement meets the outer bevelsurface 0, the spring 03 yields and allows the imple ment to ride upover the projection 0, until it drops into the depression between theprojections c and 0, where it is yieldingly held by spring cl, whichforces it to its seat upon the two bevel surfaces as best shown in 2. Toremove the implement, it is swung outwardly on b as a. pivot, riding upon the inner bevel surface of projection c. In order to facilitate theremoval of the im plement, one end, preferably the free end which isremote from the pivot, is held farther away than the other end from thesupport S to which the device is attached, thus providing a clearancefor the fingers between the end of the implement and the support. Thisis accomplished by making the base a thicker at that end than at theother end as shown in Fig. 3. It will be understood that the device maybe secured to any suitable supporting surface, but it is preferablysecured underneath a surface such as the under side of the seat of anautomobile, as shown in Fig. 8.

I claim:

1. An implement holder comprising a base plate increasing in thicknessfrom one end to the other, supporting means for an implement on each endof said base plate, and a spring finger intermediate said supportingmeans adapted to bear on said implement and hold it in place.

2. An implement holder comprising abase plate adapted to be attached toa relatively fixed support, a projecting pin on one end of said base, apair of spaced lugs inclined on both sides on the opposite end of thebase, and an intermediate spring to retain'an implement placed on saidpin and lugs, whereby said implement may be inserted and re-Paten'tetlOct. 1,1912.

a lug inclined onboth sides on the other end,

a second lug inclined on its inner side spaced transversely of the baseplate from the first named lug and nearer the projecting pin,andwaz-springifinger extending across the base plate. between the,latter lug and the pin, the

'1 may besWung-on said pin to the first named lugand back-of the springfinger,

finger between: the spaced lugs.

14. An implementholder comprising abase plate-adapted to be attached-toa-relatively retain it in place on the holder, the outer face of saidbase plate being at an angle longitudinally to its inner face to holdone end of the-supported implement sufliciently far from the part onwhich the holder is atjtached to permit the fingers to easily grasp :theimplement.

paa't-S'being so arranged that an implement this 18th day of, June 1910.andriding I over said-lug be forced into and held by said j Signed byme.at Boston, Massachusetts,

RAY BAKER TAFT.

Witnesses ROBERT CUSHMAN, CHARLES D. Woonnnnnr.

Gopies-of this patent may be--'obtained for five cents each,byaddressing the Commissioner of'latents. Washington, I); G.

